Prognostic Significance of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer who Underwent Intravesical BCG Treatment | ||
| Al-Azhar International Medical Journal | ||
| Volume 2023, Issue 2, February 2023 | ||
| DOI: 10.58675/2682-339X.1651 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sabri Mahmoud Khaled1; Yasser Ali Ahmed1; Mohamed Farrag Mahrous2 | ||
| 1UrologyDepartment, Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University (Cairo), Egypt | ||
| 2Urology resident; Kobry-Alkobba military hospital, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background; The ninth most prevalent cancer worldwide and the thirteenth major reason of cancer-related fatalities is urinary bladder cancer (BC), Aim and objectives; to evaluate the impact of pretreatment NLR as a clinical outcome predictor in patients with intravesical BCG-treated NMIBC, Subjects and methods; In the El-Hussein hospital and Kobry-Alkobba military hospital, 126 patients with NMIBC participated in this retrospective cohort research, Result; No substantial variation were found between cancer free patients and patients with recurrence at 1st follow up cystoscopy regarding tumor size (p>0.05). Tumor multiplicity showed substantial variation between the two groups as it was substantially greater in cases with recurrence (p | ||
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